The Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA) Foundation has awarded $51,587 in grants and designated funding to 15 programs that bring oral healthcare to low-income Wisconsin residents and provide other dentistry-related services.
Here are some of the grant winners:
The AIDS Network in Madison will use its $5,000 gift to purchase dental clinic supplies and cover laboratory fees.
In Milwaukee, the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin will use a $5,000 award to help pay for patients' prosthodontic procedures and subsequent dentures.
Bread of Healing Clinic, also in Milwaukee, will use its $3,000 grant to purchase oral hygiene education materials and dental equipment.
Brown County Oral Health Partnership in Green Bay will use its $3,500 grant to purchase dental supplies and restorative materials necessary to provide care to adults with developmental disabilities and school-based care to low-income children.
Community Dental Clinic of Jefferson County will receive $4,000 toward the purchase of much-needed consumable supplies.
HealthNet of Rock County in Janesville has served low-income and uninsured county residents since 2007. The clinic, which is staffed by volunteer dentists, will use its $3,000 foundation grant to purchase equipment and supplies.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Dental Clinic will use a $5,000 grant to purchase new equipment. The largely volunteer clinic provides free dental services to low-income children and adults from Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, and Waukesha counties.
The application deadline for 2013 grants is July 31, 2012. Visit WDA.org, or contact Executive Director Vicki Bohman at 414-755-4198 or [email protected] for more information.
